From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christer Palm Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 01:22:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [Xpert]Re: User-level Tasks in Hotplug Scripts? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Oliver Neukum wrote: >>Jim, if the user is logged in so is the rest of the user interface. Why >>not have a monitoring program (like console) that watches the hotplug >>events and invokes corresponding configuration program ? This would also >>allow for various user environments to customize configuration tools to >>match their look. >> > > That solution is not in itself sufficient. You might not want everybody > to see all hotplug events. > And what would the problem be with using an event distribution mechanism that would require the listener to have certain privileges? -- Christer Palm _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel